M 7 Study

Question 1

Chapter 7

Parenthetical Statements

Answer 1

1. (The Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they give their hands a ceremonial washing, holding to the tradition of the elders. When they come from the marketplace they do not eat unless they wash. And they observe many other traditions, such as the washing of cups, pitchers and kettles.)
2. (that is, devoted to God)
3. (In saying this, Jesus declared all foods clean.)
4. (which means “Be opened!”)

Question 2

M 7:30

Answer 2

She went home and found her child lying on the bed, and the demon gone.

Question 3

Where do evil thoughts come from?

Answer 3

7:21 For it is from within, out of a person’s heart, that evil thoughts come—sexual immorality, theft, murder,

Question 4

M 7:25

Answer 4

In fact, as soon as she heard about him, a woman whose little daughter was possessed by an impure spirit came and fell at his feet.

Question 5

Chapter 7

Old Testament

Answer 5

1. These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. They worship me in vain; their teachings are merely human rules.
2. Honor your father and mother,
3. Anyone who curses their father or mother is to be put to death.

Question 6

Chapter 7

Geographicals

Answer 6

1. Jerusalem
2. Tyre
3. Syrian Phoenicia
4. Sidon
5. Sea of Galilee
6. Decapolis

Question 7

M 7:5

Answer 7

So the Pharisees and teachers of the law asked Jesus, “Why don’t your disciples live according to the tradition of the elders instead of eating their food with defiled hands?”

Question 8

M 7:10

Answer 8

For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and mother,’ and, ‘Anyone who curses their father or mother is to be put to death.’

Question 9

Chapter 7

Exclamations

Answer 9

1. You have a fine way of setting aside the commands of God in order to observe your own traditions!
2. Ephphatha!
3. Be opened!

Question 10

Section Title

Jesus Honors a Syrophoenician Woman’s Faith

Answer 10

7:24-30

Question 11

Section Title

7:1-23

Answer 11

That Which Defiles

Question 12

M 7:20

Answer 12

He went on: “What comes out of a person is what defiles them.

Question 13

Chapter 7

Individuals

Answer 13

1. Jesus
2. Isaiah
3. Moses

Question 14

What are merely human rules?

Answer 14

7:7 They worship me in vain; their teachings are merely human rules.

Question 15

What defiles a person?

Answer 15

7:15 Nothing outside a person can defile them by going into them. Rather, it is what comes out of a person that defiles them.”

Question 16

Section Title

7:31-37

Answer 16

Jesus Heals a Deaf and Mute Man

Question 17

By their tradition, the Pharisees did what?

Answer 17

7:13 Thus you nullify the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down. And you do many things like that.”

Question 18

M 7:1

Answer 18

The Pharisees and some of the teachers of the law who had come from Jerusalem gathered around Jesus

Question 19

M 7:35

Answer 19

At this, the man’s ears were opened, his tongue was loosened and he began to speak plainly.

Question 20

To observe their own traditions, the Pharisees did what?

Answer 20

7:9 And he continued, “You have a fine way of setting aside the commands of God in order to observe your own traditions!

Question 21

Chapter 7

Questions

Answer 21

1. Why don’t your disciples live according to the tradition of the elders instead of eating their food with defiled hands?
2. Are you so dull?
3. Don’t you see that nothing that enters a person from the outside can defile them?

Question 22

M 7:15

Answer 22

Nothing outside a person can defile them by going into them. Rather, it is what comes out of a person that defiles them.”